Wedding Card

Adam and Lucy are going to Lucy's cousin's wedding over in Belfast at the weekend and asked me to make a card for them.

Box Lid

I seem to have a thing about easel cards at the moment, but they do look good!

My brother's 60th birthday card

This card has given me no end of grief.  I wanted to use his name in big letters but it looked dreadful so in the end I decided on using a picture of him when he was little.  The bonus is, I can count it as a scrapbook layout so I can claim 10 points for my team, the Bijoux Belles!

Engagement card

The last week has been spent making cards - you'd think the amount I make I'd get a bit quicker but  no.
This card is a commission and it's an 8" x 8" one in a box.  I have no idea what I will charge!  She didn't ask for a card in a box so I'll have to wait and see what the reaction is when she collects it!  The card is a bigger version of Laura's pretty much.

This is the lid.

Engagement card for Laura

and some close ups.

I can't claim any of the credit for the idea, it came from here.  I've made another card similar to this one while I will upload later.

Sketchy Thursdays September Guest Design Team Challange

I've rotated the sketch and come up with this.  I've used Echo Park - A walk in the park papers which I am loving.  Although you can't tell from the picture I have hand cut all the trees out.  Had I know it wouldn't show up I wouldn't have bothered.

Sketchy Thursdays 8.5 - Smile

Another quick page - done from some papers given free with either a card making or scrapbooking magazine, I can't remember which.  I just know I have a whole pile of them that have never been touched and I thought it was about time I used a few.

The photo doesn't do the colours justice - the pink card is a real shocking pink.

Twisted Sketch~61 - Dream

It seems ages since I upload to my blog but I have been busy doing other stuff which I can't show for the time being.

The twist for this weeks sketch was rough so I've used some cardboard and taken part of the top layer of paper off and sponged on some blue and white paint - very roughly!

Card for Maria

This is the card I made for Maria to go with the cheque.

Workshop = fun

I found this weeks challenge on UKs a bit difficult but got there in the end.  We had to have:-

Theme of Education/Learning
Include 123 or ABC
Use at least one of the 3 Primary colours (Red, Blue, Yellow)

I chose a photo of the Bijoux Belles at the workshop we took with LB Crafts, I'd no idea about the ABC or 123 aspect so just used the word fun 3 times.

I haven't made paper windmills since the children were small!

Cricket or Grasshopper?

This is my entry for the design team challenge over on the Creative Craftworld Blog. We were provided with a sketch and as I'd just printed out these three pictures, I thought I might as well scrap them.  This layout also covers my August dip from my mojo jar which was "Scrap three pictures together in a group and include ribbon on your LO" by Kay.

Millie - Twisted Sketch #59

The twist for this weeks sketch was stars.  As I wasn't uploading it to their site I didn't bother with the stars bit, I just used the sketch and had a play with my new punches.  However I see now that one of the snowflakes has a star cut out of its centre!

Create 10 - day 8 and 9

This is day 8, using up random number stickers and scrapping an important event.  I chose our 24th wedding anniversary but I decided to die cut some numbers as I wanted to keep my stickers.  I realised when I photographed this that I hadn't actually stuck the red card to the base, or the circles (representing 24 years of marriage) but that has been sorted now.

This is day 9 and isn't finished yet - I'm not sure about this one so I've left it and I will keep coming back to it over the next few days until I am happy with it.  The idea was to use up those small scraps of ribbon and most of the bits I used were less than 4" long, so it was handy to get these out of my ribbon drawers.

These are my new Martha Stewart punches - I so love snowflakes so I had to have these even though they are only going to be used in the winter.

Create 10 - Day 10

It was the final class today - a mini book.  I loved making this, it was so easy and effective.  Holly's is trying to lose weight and Chris suggested that she take a photo of herself once a month to see her progress, so I thought I'd make a little journal for her to record her journey.  This is just a sample of some of the pages.  There is a place for photos, her weight loss and and thing else she'd like to jot down.

Create 10 day 5 - Love Hate

For this page we had to use papers we love and papers we hate - I struggled to find papers I hate because although I have some I don't like as much, I know they'll always come in useful for something.

Again, I have been using up some of my  Tiffany papers and the paper I have used as the second background layer - the paper I hate, is Kay and Co but I have no idea what.

Create 10 - day 4 Family

I'm getting to like these 8.5" x 11" pages!  The idea of this class was to use up some of our fibres, and boy do I have a lot to use up.  There was a template for the tree too which was a bit fiddly to cut out but it's done now and I'm glad I did it.

Create 10 - day 7 Me as a teenager

Made with scraps of papers I'd kept in a plastic bag for a projects such as this!  Normally when I have scraps I punch out flowers and circles from them to use at a later date.  I would never have dreamed of using them on a LO like this and am pleased with the overall effect.  Definitely one to try again.

Create 10 - Day 6

I still haven't caught up yet but I have finished yesterday's which was primarily to make a wall hanging.  As I didn't have any wooden frames, I did the secondary project - a layout.  It took me forever to sew all the circles down but I am glad I persevered.

Create 10 - Day 3

I've got a bit behind with these - this one is sundays, using up paper scraps to wrap around the heart and paper/fabric scraps for the flowers.

I've added a picture of me and Chris taken yesterday on our 24th wedding anniversary.

Create 10 - That's my boy

Today's class was using up paper scraps and making a handcut paper chain.  I made this page 8" x 11" as the class suggested, mainly because some of the paper strips across have been pleated and would have had to be joined if I'd done 12" x 12".

I have also found all my fancy edged scissors so some of the strips have been cut with these, some fringed and the others pleated.